On the day we parted, Bai Ze walked alone through the mountains and forests for two days, deliberately smearing mint juice all over his body to cover up his scent.
The three Wang brothers did not catch up. He didn't know that they were all killed by the Niu Gui, or they went to chase Ouyang. Anyway, no matter what, just be ready for battle at all times.
So what if I chase you? If they really fight hard, his Waterfall Sword may not lose to them.
Along the way, I drank from mountain springs and ate hares. When I felt sleepy, I built a wooden bed on a century-old tree in the forest and rested for the night. Xie Xuan marked the location of the elixir on the parchment. Bai Ze was born with a strong sense of direction. He searched for the Hengshan Mountain where the earth spirit root was located, and worked hard all the way. Needless to say.
It is worth mentioning that two nights ago, he meditated and practiced, and finally broke through the fourth level of the sea of suffering.
"With the improvement of cultivation, the power of Xuan Jade Palm has also increased a lot!" Bai Ze recalled that day when he shattered a cold arrow with his palm, and he was very excited. He looked at his dark right palm and smashed a rock taller than him with one palm. , full of admiration.
"This Xuan Jade Palm is really amazing! According to the secret knowledge written on the wall, this palm has been cultivated to the extreme. The palm is as black as jade and can easily break Xuan level spiritual weapons!" Bai Ze thought in his heart, "If it is as good as the Half-Step Sword Immortal King Zhihuan, it must be Even an earth-level spiritual weapon can be resisted with one palm. Now that my cultivation level is too low and I have just learned it, it can already threaten the lives of monks in the other side. If I cross the sea of suffering to reach the other side and strike down with one palm, I am afraid that the master Zhiwei will also do it. Uncomfortable."
Hengshan has a special terrain, with warm winters and cool summers, and plenty of sunlight. Earth spirit roots are suitable for growing in this environment. In summer, they are grass, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to grow freely. In winter, they are insects, dormant underground, immortal and still growing.
The herb collectors in Dushan often refer to the root of earth spirit as "Cordyceps". This kind of elixir has the wonderful effect of expanding people's meridians and warming the soul.
Bai Ze was not sure about the elixir that Xie Xuan wanted to refine. He had known Xie Xuan for more than ten years, but he had never heard Xie Xuan mention it.
However, judging from the elixir Xie Xuan was looking for, the elixir he wanted to refine was probably related to the fact that he had overcome the sea of suffering for more than two years. It was probably the elixir for cleansing the marrow and cutting down the meridians.
"Finally we're here." Bai Ze looked at the vast mountains in front of him, with the beautiful trees and overcast trees. Even though late autumn was approaching, they were still full of life, and he sighed at the magical power of nature.
This season happens to be when the ground spirit root transforms from grass to insect. This is the time when its medicinal properties are strongest and best to find.
Because at this time, the ground spirit root will show a different kind of brownish red color, which is incompatible with the surrounding green color.
Before entering the mountain, Bai Ze found a small river at the foot of the mountain. Where the river turned, a pool was formed that was deep for one person. After many days of traveling, he once again lamented the importance of owning a riding spirit beast. He took off his clothes, jumped into the pool, and washed away the mud.
"Comfortable!" After taking a bath, Bai Ze tidied up, put up his black hair, and inserted a wooden hairpin into it. The river water reflected a handsome young man with eyebrows like stars, red lips and white teeth, and a broken sword at his waist. He looked like a handsome man. Swordsman!
I caught a few river fish, roasted them with the remaining salt and seasoned them to fill my stomach. The sun was already heading west.
"It's time to enter the mountain." Bai Ze pressed his sword, his eyes a little solemn.
The parchment scroll painted by Xie Xuan records that this earth spirit root is a treasured delicacy of many spirit beasts, so there is a high chance of encountering spirit beasts when going to the mountains to collect herbs.
It would be fine if I met a docile one, but I was afraid of meeting a panda marked red by Xie Xuan on the parchment.
This herbivorous spirit beast has a strong sense of territory. Ordinary spiritual beasts, if someone invades their territory, may just come out and bar their teeth and roar twice to scare them away.
But this panda is really stubborn. He will not give up easily until he chases you for ten to twenty miles!
"Infinite Heavenly Lord." Bai Ze strode into the mountain, stepping on the lantern grass on the ground, "I hope this trip goes well."
At the same time, the city limits of Heyang, Machi Town, and Liuzhuang.
In the afternoon, the autumn breeze brings coolness. Chen Yuanfang was still chopping firewood in the back mountain, and Liu Ling had nothing to do. He was pondering the chess game left by Xie Xuan under the locust tree, and thinking about the sword that Xie Xuan used to level Songgang that day while talking and laughing.
"The lower sword kills, the middle sword gathers Qi, the upper sword concentrates the mind, and the upper sword is the heart." Liu Ling held the black piece in his hand and tapped the chessboard on the stone table slowly, "One sword and a thousand willows is what I am currently trapped in." The gathering energy is what Dao Zun calls the middle sword."
Ten years ago, the sword with which the unknown swordsman attained enlightenment under a tree was the upper sword, condensing the sword intention of turning one into a thousand.
And that day, Taoist Master waved the Fuliu sword with a flick of his sleeve. Was it the upper sword or the ultimate sword?
"Grandpa Liu Ling, what are you thinking about?" Eight-year-old Xiao Caiyun was lying on the fence of the village chief's yard curiously, looking at Liu Ling, who was dressed in green. "Brother Yuan Fang goes into the mountains to cut firewood every day, and Bai Ze says hello. I left without saying a word, and there was no one to play with me anymore, I was so bored."
"Xiao Caiyun, if you feel bored, how about I teach you the art of breathing and exhaling. Now that you have time, how about spreading out two green onion pancakes for me to eat every now and then?" Someone suddenly opened the firewood door and said.
"Hey, old god!?" Caiyun was startled when he saw the person coming clearly. He stretched his neck to see if there was anyone behind Xie Xuan. He didn't find Bai Ze, and pouted his pink lips in disappointment and said, "Bai Ze" Didn’t Ze come back with you?”
"He has to do something for me, and he won't be able to come back until it snows." Xie Xuan took a sip of the green ant wine brought from the Fulai Tavern in Machi Town, carrying the wine gourd, and said, "How about it, we have to learn from ?"
"What's there to learn about breathing and breathing?" the little girl asked, tilting her head and moving her braids, which was really cute.
"Once you learn it, you can fly in the clouds." Xie Xuan said, "How about it?"
"Sounds fun!" Caiyun clapped her hands and wrinkled her little nose, "But I have to ask my mother first. If she agrees, I will follow your example!"
"Then go ahead and ask." Xie Xuan walked under the locust tree. Liu Ling had already stood up and personally poured a cup of bitter tea for Xie Xuan.
"Tao Zun." Liu Ling asked, "Where have you been these days?"
"Go to Heyang City to meet an old friend." Xie Xuan sat down, "I asked him to help me find a good elixir cauldron, but I was forced to make a furnace of golden elixir for him, which wasted some time. "
"About twenty days ago, the willow sword that my friend and I were holding broke." Liu Ling hesitated for a moment before speaking, "I thought, maybe my friend encountered some trouble? That willow sword should have broken." ”
"If it breaks, it will break." Xie Xuan didn't care, "It's a willow sword, it's just easy to break, so why worry?"
"It's just..." Liu Ling wanted to say something, but Xie Xuan looked indifferent. Thinking that he, as Bai Ze's master, was not worried, what did he have to worry about?
So I was relieved.
"Old fairy!" Caiyun opened the firewood door with a bang, ran in, and said, "My mother said, you can learn!" Her little face was flushed.
"Well, your mother is discerning." Xie Xuan waved, and Caiyun ran over obediently, "Here, let me think about it, what should I teach you... Well, how about "Phoenix Dances in the Nine Heavens"?"
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The road into the mountains to collect herbs was not easy. Not long after Bai Ze entered Hengshan, he always felt like a pair of eyes were staring at him from the dark.
The constitution of the innate Tao embryo is in line with the way of heaven, and its response to all things is wonderful. Bai Ze has sharp senses since he was a child and rarely makes mistakes.
But the strange thing is that no matter how suspicious he is, the owner of those eyes in the dark does not seem to exist, and he can never find "that person".
"I hope I'm overthinking it." Bai Ze felt uneasy and wanted to pick the earth root as soon as possible and leave this place quickly.
But the mountains were vast and the ground spirit root was only as long as two of his fingers, so it was not easy to find it.
After walking around in the mountains for a long time, I found nothing. When night fell, Bai Ze sighed, shot a hare, roasted it, and the aroma spread far away.
The river at the foot of the mountain is winding, and the lanterns growing on the riverbank slowly emit charming fluorescence at night, like the hazy stars in the sky, or like the fairy Chaoyue holding a lantern by the river and singing leisurely.
Bai Ze really heard the ethereal singing, like the fragrance of the lotus pond in the breeze.
"It's so wonderful to see beautiful scenery on a good day!" On a whim, Bai Ze ran straight down the mountain without caring about the spiritual roots. "But there is no beautiful woman and wine, otherwise I would have written a poem!"
The mountains and rivers reflect the stars, and the fluorescence emitted by the lanterns on both sides of the bank contrasts with each other, making it look like a fairyland. The further we go down the mountain, the clearer the singing becomes.
At first, Bai Ze only thought it was his auditory hallucination, but gradually, he became immersed in the graceful singing and couldn't help but want to sing in praise.
"Who is singing in this deserted mountain?" Bai Ze was also bold and walked over looking for the faint sound of singing.
The river gurgled and meandered continuously. The lanterns all over the ground illuminate the river like a dream.
"If someone comes to the mountain,
Being taken away by Xili Xi, she is a girl.
It is both suitable to look at and laugh at,
I admire you for being so graceful and graceful. "
The ethereal voice caressed through time and space, and Bai Ze stepped on the lantern grass and arrived near the pool where he had bathed before. The singing came from here. He plucked the grass and looked curiously at the river bend and pool.
It's as if time has stopped and time has turned upside down.
Bai Ze forgot to breathe.
Under the hazy moonlight, the water pool was sparkling, and the fluorescence of lantern plants made the figures in the water look like fairies in a painting.
Surrounded by vibrant green, she is dressed in a goose-yellow dress that looks like autumn leaves. Her hair is covered with green hair that is wetted by the river water and spread on her smooth and jade-like back. She is mesmerizing at a glance.
Dressed in Xili, with a female rosary wrapped around his waist. His eyes were like water, and he smiled sweetly. Bai Ze heard the mysterious woman's melodious singing suddenly stop, and the sound of water rushing. He stood up in the shallow part of the pool, turned around, and looked at Bai Ze.
"Aren't you afraid of me?" she asked.
If Mu Qingling can be said to have grown into the girl next door, she can be considered beautiful. Then the person in front of me must be the most beautiful person in the world.
Bai Ze looked into the pale green eyes of the mysterious woman. Her skin color was as good as snow, and her lips were like roses. She was a fallen fairy!
"Why should I be afraid of you?" Bai Ze asked blankly.
"Can't you see?" She twisted her green hair with slender jade fingers and raised her eyes, as if she wanted to see through Bai Ze's heart. "My appearance is very different from yours. I... am not a human being." .”
